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We have exciting news…the four former language departments at UVM have now become UVM’s School of World Languages and Cultures! Please like and follow the School’s brand new page vis the link below. This is our launch week, with several events on campus. Check out the poster over at the new page!

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UVM School of World Languages and Cultures Education website

https://www.uvm.edu/news/cas/hispanic-voices-breaks-down-barriers-language-and-culture

“Hispanic Voices” Breaks Down Barriers of Language and Culture Listeners who tune in to Vermont Public Radio (VPR) this spring will be treated to the sound of UVM students in conversation with native Spanish speakers living in Vermont. “Hispanic Voices,” a service-learning project created by Adriana Sanchez-Gutierrez, Ph.D., lecturer of Spanish in the...

Check out an initiative by Spanish Lecturer Adriana Sanchez-Gutierrez that links Intermediate Spanish students with native Spanish speakers in Vermont! The project was developed in conjunction with Vermont Public and is featured in this 15-minute podcast:

https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2023-04-24/college-students-connect-with-hispanic-vermonters-through-a-spanish-class-project?fbclid=IwAR3_PHs3YZUBjBNqKtfwlhBjPd-OWnLzm9zo97TkeH90ICiJgFheiZYRD5w

College students connect with Hispanic Vermonters through a Spanish class project A University of Vermont Spanish professor shares the story of a class project in which her students interviewed Hispanic Vermonters.

The faculty of the new School of the world Languages welcomed Dr. Heather Willis Allen to UVM for 3 fantastic days! We talked about L2 writing, had a great workshop, and listened to Dr. Allen’s presentation on her new upcoming book! It was great to see all the language faculty unite to reflect about their teaching!

Some exciting changes are on the way for world languages at UVM…

UVM Board of Trustees Approves Creation of School of World Languages and Cultures The UVM Board of Trustees approved at its quarterly meeting on Feb. 11 a proposal to create a new School of World Languages and Cultures (SWLC) within the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). This School brings together four departments—Asian Languages and Literatures, Classics, German and...

You can see Professor Emerita Gretchen van Slyke's recent talk on artist Rosa Bonheur for the Attleboro Arts Museum at the link here!

Art Lovers Book Club: “Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur” by Catherine Hewitt Did you miss this session of Art Lovers Book Club? Check out the recording of our virtual meeting on “Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheu...

This Thursday, Professor of French Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier will speak on Annie Ernaux at UVM's panel on this year's Nobel Prize winners:

WHAT DID THEY DO THAT WAS SO GREAT?
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZES

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 4:30 to 6:00 pm
Stafford Hall 101
Students, Faculty, Staff, and Public are welcome.
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“Research on Banks and Financial Crises” (Prize in
Economics)
Professor Jane Knodell, Department of Economics
“Uncovering the Roots, Estrangements and Collective
Restraints of Personal Memory” (Prize in Literature)
Professor Charles-Louis Morand-Metivier, Romance Languages
“Development of Click Chemistry and Bioorthogonal
Chemistry” (Prize in Chemistry)
Professor Matthias Brewer, Department of Chemistry
“The Discoveries Concerning Genomes of Extinct
Hominins and Human Evolution” (Prize in Medicine)
Professor Lori Stevens, Department of Biology
“Pioneering Quantum Information Science” (Prize in
Physics)
Professor Randall Headrick, Department of Physics

Check out Professor of Italian Cristina Mazzoni's BBC interview about her work on the cultural history of oranges:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct38sk?fbclid=IwAR1XogXbPuPEypF7gXViV5zRM5mh47YT0yVVNWZJkTlzU3NoNSk9XGljQnE

The Forum - The unstoppable orange - BBC Sounds The golden fruit that became a symbol of love and wealth

If you understand French, check out Professor Ching Selao talking about her new book on Aimé Césaire’s reception in Québec:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzA-HCIG6I

UVM Professors Meaghan Emery (French), Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier (French), and Steven Zdatny (History) invite you to a roundtable discussion of the results of the 2022 French presidential election. No matter the results, the economic, environmental, and geopolitical stakes of this contest are clear for the West and for the globe.

When: Wednesday, April 27
Time: 5:00 - 6:30pm
Where: 413 Waterman Bldg.

This in-person event is free, in English, and open to the public.

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, April 14, at 4:30 for an invited lecture by Prof. Robert Zaretsky of the University of Houston, who will be speaking on "The Peste that Never Rests: Why Albert Camus' The Plague Matters" in 413 Waterman. Free and open to all...

Professor Paolo Pucci's students created a Renaissance-style sonnet by an imaginary poet. Check it out!

Professor of Italian Cristina Mazzoni was featured on BBC Radio recently, discussing Pinocchio. Have a listen!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1rmn?fbclid=IwAR16O5Y4zdCMGe2MUDL4rmn1xGTO5rvBLV5GA41JCYEjtjDk6e31gSsXNbs

The Forum - Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet - BBC Sounds The original Italian novel about the wooden puppet with the growing nose

UVM Romance Languages & Cultures updated their information in their About section.

Professor Cristina Mazzoni's anthology of modern Italian fairy tales was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. Check it out!

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/pomegranates-and-other-modern-italian-fairy-tales-book-review-marina-warner/?utm_content=196974472&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-96124072223

An anthology of oddly modern fairy tales A wild story about three girls enchanted into the form of pomegranates – or apples, lemons or bitter oranges – has a claim to be a truly Italian tale, or

Starting tomorrow (10/14) from 1-3pm, and continuing on Friday (10/15) from 1:15-3:30pm, this year's Hispanic Forum shines a light on the important role of women in the settlement of the Americas. Come join us on Teams: https://go.uvm.edu/hispanicforum27

Professor of Italian Cristina Mazzoni made The Guardian with news of her latest book. Check it out!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/01/incest-story-by-pinocchio-author-published-in-english-for-the-first-time?fbclid=IwAR37jwjUy3UOHp5dM1XhfxRAsJxFrqpl_pt-u76su0X9TL7_YDGdA5HVPL8

In**st story by Pinocchio author published in English for the first time Carlo Collodi’s version of Donkey Skin, by French author Charles Perrault, will appear in a new collection of Italian fairytales

Congratulations to Professor Cristina Mazzoni on the publication of her new book!

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691199788/the-pomegranates-and-other-modern-italian-fairy-tales

The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales—most in English for the first time

Check out this beautiful photographic feature of Senior Lecturer of French and Italian (and German) Adriana Borra!

https://www.sitonthefloorpod.com/blog/episode-05-adriana-borra?fbclid=IwAR3REGnTFZzY9ERyIqdGjZyJtntrZ1Mw_YFI83aWDAAty1V6p_IFDWYnz1o

Episode #05: Adriana Borra — Sit on the Floor Adriana Borra spoke four languages by the time she was four years old. Since then, she has lived in five countries and fifteen cities, and is now a language professor at the University of Vermont. Photos taken in her office.

If you like crime fiction, check out this article by Senior Lecturer of Spanish Deborah Cafiero about detective fiction in Spain and Mexico!

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/cfs.2021.0044

‘Hard-Boiled’ Detectives in Spain and Mexico: The Ethical Reorientation of a Genre: Crime Fiction Studies: Vol 2, No 2 Hard-boiled’ fiction arose in the early decades of the twentieth century, uncovering connections among crime, wealth and power, and exposing moral fissures within U.S. capitalism. After French publisher Gallimard marketed translations of American crime fiction as noir, international writers starte...

Check out this essay by UVM French alum Derek Neal on novelist Teju Cole, with reference to Proust and Camus...

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/07/teju-coles-sonic-fugue.html -199788

Teju Cole's Sonic Fugue | 3 Quarks Daily by Derek Neal As an aspiring writer of fiction, I like to try and understand the mechanics of what I’m reading. I attempt to ascertain how a writer achieves a certain effect through the manipulation of language. What must happen for us to get “wrapped up” in a story, to lose track of time, to....

In preparation for an upcoming Vermont performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, our own Professor Emerita of French Janet Whatley gives an interview on maverick Enlightenment philosopher and writer Voltaire. Check it out!

Voltaire and "Candide": The Life, the Work, the Opera A robust discussion about Voltaire, "Candide" and opera with host Myah Rose Paden, singer & creator of the "Thorn & Thistle" Podcast and Janet Whatley, Profe...

The Louvre has put its entire art collection to view online The treasures of this Paris institution can now be viewed from anywhere.